Chair(s): | Secretary: |
Rebecca TADESSE (rebecca.tadesse@oecd-nea.org) |
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Member(s): | All NEA member countries* | ||
Russia (Suspended*) | |||
*Russian Federation suspended pursuant to a decision of the OECD Council. | |||
Full participant(s): |
European Commission Under the NEA Statute | ||
Observer(s)(International Organisation): |
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) By agreement | ||
Date of creation: | 10 September 2020 | ||
End of mandate: | 30 September 2022 |
Mandate (Document reference):
Mandate (Document extract):
Extract from Document NEA/RWM/IDKM(2020)5/FINAL
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Scope
The EGAP is concerned with the task of awareness preservation during the timescales after closure of a repository, when the job of putting the functional repository in place is finished and when awareness is no longer self-evident through an ongoing major industrial activity.
Mandate
The Working Party on Information, Data and Knowledge Management (WP-IDKM) has decided to establish the third-level Expert Group on Awareness Preservation after Repository Closure (EGAP). The EGAP shall carry out the following key tasks:
To support these primary activities, the expert group shall identify relevant secondary activities to be progressed.
Working methods
The mode of operation of the EGAP is based upon plenary meetings and an ongoing, project-oriented working programme.
A Bureau consisting of a Chair and one or more Vice-Chairs shall co-ordinate and facilitate the work of the EGAP. The Bureau shall normally meet once or twice a year, with one meeting normally held in conjunction with the annual EGAP plenary meeting.
Communication within the EGAP shall primarily take place through annual plenary meetings. The plenary meeting is devoted to:
The EGAP shall report to the WP-IDKM at the annual meetings of the working party.
Additionally, the EGAP shall: (i) identify resources (including funding) and schedules for its activities; and (ii) review the programme of work and its effectiveness.
In fulfilling its Mandate, the EGAP will be supported by the staff of the NEA Division of Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning.
Membership
The EGAP is a task-oriented expert group that should be composed of a diverse range of experts in the field of RK&M/awareness preservation in RWM, decommissioning and non-related fields from NEA member countries, e.g. engineers and scientists in RWMOs, decommissioning and other technical domains involved with data and information management, knowledge managers and social scientists involved with knowledge management on extended timescales (hundreds of years).
Interactions
The work of the EGAP shall be complementary to that of the IAEA and the EC, and the group should co-operate with its relevant counterparts as well as provide relevant input to the activities of these institutions, as appropriate.
Through the RWMC and Secretariat, the EGAP will co-operate with the NEA standing technical committees and their subsidiary bodies when relevant, in particular those of the Committee on Decommissioning of Nuclear Installations and Legacy Management (CDLM) to identify (i) interfaces between the groups and (ii) overlaps and common issues. It may also collaborate with the NEA Data Bank.
In particular, the EGAP will take into account the following NEA reports and publications:
Deliverables
The expert group will produce appropriate reports, presentations and workshops with the support of the Secretariat.